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It’s a new place for the Summer Bowl trivia championship, as over two dozen teams gathered at the new Pearl Street Pub in downtown Albany.  I was there with my Street Academy trivia teammates, and right off the bat everybody knew that this seventh iteration of the summer gathering of Capital District brainsquads would be…

Some housekeeping business first.  Although this is only the fourth week in the 12-week tournament, it’s the last trivia game in the Trivia League schedule before Saturday’s Summer Bowl VII.  Yep, the mid-season championship of trivia is coming up this Saturday at the Pearl Street Pub (the former Jillian’s), show up at 1pm, questions start…

So let’s see.  A few things have come up with regard to this season’s “Trivia League” tournament.  First off, after twelve weeks of play, the top four teams will receive money.  That’s in addition to the money being raffled off during the weekly games.   So there will be, once again, “THE DREADED CUT LINE” at…

Sometimes, when playing competitive bar trivia, you can have a great run of several correct questions in a row. This was NOT one of those nights. A lot of teams this week, myself included, struggled in Week 2 of the twelve-week summer trivial league at Graney’s Stout.  Some of the questions were absolute murder questions…

No, your eyes do not deceive you. The trivia recaps are back. Years ago, in the early days of this weblog, I recapped the success of my bar trivia team, Street Academy, at the Elbo Room multi-week big money trivia tournaments.  My team won two of those tournaments back in the day, and after each…

Monday night.  Several of the trivia teams are participating in a post-tournament banquet and dance party.  And the cool thing about this is … I’m having fun. Look, I can have fun at nearly every trivia tournament out there.  This time, however, was different.  I wasn’t the one-man-wrecking-crew Street Academy trivia team, nor was I…

So here’s where we’re at.  Six ten-question rounds.  Point values are doubled.  And we’re in a heated battle with several other teams, including squads called “That’s What She Said” and “Mac ‘n Cheese” and a few others. We’re ready.  Tim, Tom, Nick, Leah, William and me.  In 48 hours, we’ve cobbled together the team Stir…

Monday morning.  And the Stir Crazy trivia team is walking around the casino, our blue-white T-shirts in full view, and we’re asked by every other person who sees us, “Where are you from?” “What bar did you play out of?” You know… questions like that. And now it’s time for the third quarter.  Another batch…

It’s Sunday evening, and my Stir Crazy trivia team must now participate in the second quarter of the two-day World Tavern Trivia Championships.  The event, being held in Atlantic City, has gathered over forty different bar trivia championship teams to determine the best of the best.  And right now, after one quarter of play, we…

Sunday morning.  It’s raining in Edison, New Jersey.  And I just woke up. I’m in Edison, which is my halfway driving point to Atlantic City for the 2016 World Tavern Trivia Championships.  Some of my Hudson Valley bar trivia readers have invited me to join their Stir Crazy team, and I accepted. A text message…